Power is violence, its promise, its deed. Power cares nothing for reason, nothing for justice, nothing for compassion. It is, in fact, the singular abnegation of these things - once the cloak of deceits is stripped away, this one truth is revealed.

It is an extraordinary act of courage,' said Tulas Shorn, 'to come to know a stranger's pain.

Children were meant to be gifts. The physical manifestation of love between a man and a woman. And for that love all manner of sacrifice could be borne.

Paradise belonged to the innocent. Which was why it was and would ever remain empty. And that is what makes it a paradise.

Fear bespeaks of wisdom. Recognition of responsibility.

The heart of wisdom is tolerance.

What matter the colour of the collar around a man's neck, if the chains linked to them were identical?